NZ police probed over teen sex probe

New Zealand’s police commissioner says the force will act on a watchdog’s findings into how officers handled an investigation into a group of teenage boys who boasted online about having sex with drunk and sometimes underage girls.

In an unprecedented move, Police Minister Anne Tolley has asked the Independent Police Conduct Authority (IPCA) to investigate after revelations four complaints were made about the Roast Busters group between 2011 and 2012.

Police said earlier this week they couldn’t lay charges against the Auckland teens because no complaints had been laid.

They appealed for “a brave girl” to come forward, and on Wednesday a 15-year-old said she laid a complaint in 2011 when she was 13.

She says she was asked about the clothing she was wearing at the time in a way that suggested police thought she had been “asking for it”.